Hi there,
I’ve got this weird thing: when I click [command + shift + a] I think I’m getting a footnote instead of an annotation, because the text becomes grey, just like a footnote.
Elsewhere in my document, annotations I created earlier, are red.
Am I doing something wrong here?
If you look very close at the screenshot you posted, you might see that the right sample has a grey background fill while the left same is white. It looks like you’ve posted a shot with Ghost Notes turned on, so it is much harder to detect than if the two were selected, or Ghost Notes were off. The left one is definitely not a footnote, but it looks like you’ve got your default annotation colour set to black (or grey) instead of red.
Hi Amber,
And thanks for your reply! There is indeed a difference between the two greys, which becomes more clear when I turn Ghost Notes Mode off. However, there’s still a difference between the annotations I created before this problem started and the annotations I now create, see the picture.
Hmmm, I seem to have figured it out. Changing the colour of one annotation determines the colour of all newly created annotations. This is kind if odd perhaps, because you can’t change the look of all annotations document-wide I guess…
The feature is intended to allow you to use colours to represent types of annotations. Things you need to fact check might be green, prose you want to rewrite, red, and so on. The feature sticks to whatever colour you used last as a convenience, so you don’t have to keep switching it over and over when entering a bunch of similar comments. You can always go back and change an older annotation by putting your cursor anywhere inside of it (except the very end) and using the colour palette to change it.